As the Minnesota Twins spent Thursday in a frigid home opener claiming a win from the Seattle Mariners, baseball history was being made elsewhere. That history directly affected one of the Twins greats who was sitting at Target Field on Thursday. As Rod Carew took in some Twins baseball, Texas Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre passed Carew to become the Latin-American born player with the most major league hits. Even though it meant he was no longer on top of that leaderboard, Carew was happy for Beltre.
Every year Beltre seems to be one of those players that nationally flies very much under the radar.